13. Surveillance Awareness Flashcards
What is the definition of Surveillance?
This is the term used to describe any observations with a view to gather information on a potential target
What is the definition of Anti-Surveillance?
A system of drills employed by an individual to detect and/or evade surveillance
What is the definition of Counter Surveillance?
The observation of those involved in a surveillance operation by use of a third party with a view to identifying the perpetrators
What are the 3 types of surveillance?
1) Static (Fixed)
2) Mobile (Foot or Vehicle)
3) Technical (e.g. electronic)
How are CPOs surveillanced?
- Monitor your activities
- Gauge your level of security awareness
- Note your destinations / stops
- Predictability
- Attack sites
- Routes / times
- Routine
What are threats of surveillance awareness?
- Hostile Intelligence services
- Subversive or terrorist organizations
- Media
- Criminals
- Commercial competitors
Explain Static Surveillance.
Employed to study and identify routine or recurring functions. A fixed, specific location that provides observation of a specific area or activity. This activity does not have to be close to the target area or activity.
Explain Mobile Surveillance.
Used to obtain close up information on the movements and associates of a surveillance target. Can be on foot or in a vehicle.
Explain Technical Surveillance.
Surveillance conducted using advanced technologies (electrical, optical, acoustic, etc.); requires greater financial resources. Generally targeted at denied or otherwise protected locations from a distance
Name some direct surveillance techniques.
- Garbage sift
- Phone calls
- Ask neighbours
- Salesmen
- Cycle / Jog or walk past
- Honey trap
The first step to any surveillance operation is the research. This will probably be followed by the photographing of which 6 things?
- The Target
- Residence
- Place of work
- Vehicles
- Family
- Associates and friends
Name some of the indications of Surveillance.
- Someone peeping around corners over hedges etc, or making a considerable effort to disguise that they are watching you
- Hanging back – taking their time to get close, e.g., when following stopping to look in windows and slowing their pace as your team does
- Overtaking for no purpose – speeding up and leaving a considerable gap so that they appear to be just a normal person
- Vehicle number plate obscured – Partial or full hiding of the numberplate to avoid recognition and ANPR Cameras
- Sun Visors down – particularly when the weather or conditions do not dictate, this may be someone trying to disguise themselves
- Same person different vehicle – a tell-tale sign that a person is following you and trying to disguise it by changing vehicles
- Inappropriate clothing – dependent on the weather and environment, hoods in particular are ideal for disguising faces
- Gestures between individuals – strong possibility that they are working together for some reason.
- Extended phone call use – could be an indication that they are trying to blend in - they may not necessarily be on the phone they could be talking to themselves to disguise their actions
Which tactics can we use when describing an individual?
A - I and IC Codes
What is the A-I?
It is used to describe an individual:
A – Age
B - Build
C - Clothing
D – Distinguishing Marks
E – Elevation (Height)
F – Face
G – Gait (Walk)
H – Hair
I – Idiosyncrasies (Bad habits)
What are the IC Codes?
They are used to describe a person’s ethnicity:
IC1 - White European
Typically White UK, Scandinavian or Germanic
IC2 - Dark European
Typically from the Mediterranean
IC3 - Afro-Caribbean
Typically African or Caribbean
IC4 - Indian/Pakistani Asian
Typically Indian
IC5 - Oriental
Typically Chinese
IC6 - Arab/North African
Typically Arabic
IC7/IC0 - Unknown ethnicity
You could not see the face!
